It's not very important, in the whole great scheme of things

[emmelinemay]

but it's Emmie and not Emmy.

It's one of those awkward things, isn't it? You don't want to embarass someone or make them feel bad by correcting them, but after you've let it slide for a while then you feel like it's too late to say anything. And then when you do say something, you feel silly, because it's really not that important.

Throughout most of my life I've spent many weeks in various places called, by various people, Emily, Emma, Amy, Abby and Ellie; and been too embarassed to say anything.

Have any of you experienced this? If i've been saying/spelling your name wrong for the last few years, please tell me now!

Comments

[gothicfreakgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm actually Lady Baronness Elsbeth of Maldovia, heir to the mighty throne and warrior princess.







In my mind.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

If you don't correct people within the first 3 mispronunciations/misspellings, you are doomed forever to them calling you by someone else's name.

I am 'leesa', not 'lissa'. See cutietrol for details on how to mispronounce for 9+ years.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abby_/]

Despite the fact that all my internet ID's are 'Abby' people still spell it Abbey all the time, even though it is sitting right there in front of them.

Having said that, I dont actually care!

[brokenbeany.livejournal.com]

I always get Hannah, Anna or the worst is Annie.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I remember you telling me it was leesa and not lissa - you were in fact one of the first people i thought of when i made the post!

It's just that i've noticed the 'Emmys' creeeping in, from people who've known me for years, and i thought maybe it was tme to mention it...

I assume it's people who've been using 'Emmie' and seen other people using 'Emmy' and gone 'crap, i've got it wrong'!

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I've had Annie, on occasion, which is weird. That's a pretty talented mis-hearing.

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

I call Miz Soap Lys-a rather than Lee-sa because of the way I read the spelling in my head before I met her.

She did correct me but doesn't seem to mind too much when I drunkenly lapse. Or perhaps she does.

A nickname of mine is "Chaff" which gets spelled and pronounced all sorts of ways.

JmC
What's my name, bitch?!

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Ive written emails to people with 'Emmie' at the bottom, and it's still come back 'Emmy'!

Lets not even get into the imaginative ways people manage to spell 'Emmeline'.

[suicideally.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the diminuation of my name being spelled either "Ally" or "Ali", but it really bothers me when people call me "Alison".

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

we had a hair client who insisted on calling Alice 'Alison' even though Alice signed ALL of her emails and texts to her 'Alice', and whenever we did her hair everyone called her 'Alice'. it actually became a bit of a joke after a while :)

It doens't really bother me that much, hence why i' ve not mentioned it before. But i'm bored :)

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

I thought you were Anna.
Oops!

JmC
Anna like the bell

[mnowster.livejournal.com]

I remember the night I met you and when putting number in my phone you making it very clear it was EmmIE! It made me smile cos I get that A.LOT and tend to make it very clear it's Mazz with 2 z's!

With my full name Marianne, it's Mary-Ann, Marian, Miriam, Marriane all sorts very few ever ever get it right.

Mazz, which should be easier to get right but it has been mis-construed into Mads, Mars, Maz. It's 2 z's dammit..2..I'm greedy and it's my name! ;)

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I'm greedy and it's my name

quite!!

[jez-alone.livejournal.com]

My first GIVEN name gets...Dana, Danna, Dina, Dawna

My surname is even scarier, but only here in the UK where it seems Italian surnames are completely alien to all.

My HUGE pet peeve is when people call me "Don"...I have two freaking sylables in my name - please use both of them you lazy shit!

[felishumanus.livejournal.com]

I get Jean instead of Jane regularly

Various pronounciations of Felis, i emphasize the E, but some latin learners seem to say it Fay-lis

someone once insisted my middle name was Herman too...

and atm I am getting Mrs and Dr instead of Miss!! even Ms would be prefferable

[felishumanus.livejournal.com]

as a neam i could understand a mistype of Abbie but Abbey is a building(s)!

[god-tim.livejournal.com]

me too. I wish to be enlightened.

tim

not jim or heaven forbit the oh so funny tom (my sirname is jones)

[gothicfreakgrrl.livejournal.com]

On a more serious note, I get a right peeve when people spell it Houghton, not Horton, especially when I've just said it out loud.

[dangermonkey.livejournal.com]

Shit! So that's your name! Finally I can stop being so embarressed around you in the hope I don't have to call your name!

[dangermonkey.livejournal.com]

Have you just watched Last Boy Scout, and you're stuck on the guy who calls him 'Joseph' all the time?

[mazzmatazz.livejournal.com]

I'm also a mazz, but I used to be a maz so I'll accept both.

However, my real name, I get marissa, marrisa, marrissa, and the even more peculiar merissa... it's M.A.R.I.S.A. one R. one S. It's on my work email sig, for godssake, and people still spell it with two ss's. I've been here over 3 years! Get it right!

And I won't even get started on my surname...

[mark13.livejournal.com]

There aren't really very many ways you can fuck up 'Mark'¹ - I get the odd person asking if that's with a K or C (cos that really affects the pronunciation, of course), and occasionally someone will call me Matt or Martin, but nothing that bothers me all that much.


1. And I've tried most of the ways of fucking Mark up I can think of, over the years. ;)

[scarlett-lee.livejournal.com]

I get called Charlotte a lot but that's usually by people who have been corrected before and have just slipped up.

This reminds me of a friend I had while doing my A-levels. Our biology tutor always called Niamh "Ni-am". Niamh, being quite shy didn't immediately correct her and after that of course it was too late. There was a horrible moment about 6 months later where the poor tutor overheard another classmate addressing Niamh properly: she was mortified!

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

if i'm talking about you to other people who know you, and call you ben, they give me a funny glazed expression, and have no idea who i'm talking about until i call you barn.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Possibly. if i HAD a copy of the last boy scout. which i don't.

but that's fine. No, really, it's FINE.